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Microsoft is dealing with a self-inflicted headache today, after maintenance work on its Azure platform disrupted ExpressRoute Gateways, VPN Gateways, and Azure VMware services. Users across hybrid cloud environments are reporting degraded connectivity, and Microsoft has paused the very infrastructure activity that triggered the problem in the first place. Not a great look.
Meanwhile, a Wall Street Journal investigation is raising pointed questions about Google's push to get its Gemini AI into classrooms. One student put it plainly — the tool, quote, slowed my thinking down. It's a reminder that deploying AI in education isn't simply a technical decision. It's a choice about what we want learning to actually look like, and who bears the cost when it goes wrong.
And in the foldable phone space, Vivo has brought its X Fold six to select European markets, positioning it as a serious rival just as Apple prepares to launch its first-ever foldable, the iPhone Duo. Vivo's device won't reach the UK or US, but its arrival signals that the foldable category is becoming genuinely competitive rather than a curiosity.
That's your Tech Beat for today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
